Category: World
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Washington, November 20 Microsoft announced on Monday that it has hired Sam Altman and another co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI after they unexpectedly departed the company days earlier in a corporate shakeup that shocked the artificial intelligence world. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella also tweeted that the major investor in OpenAI behind the chatbot…
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THE wait for many people who have invested their hard-earned money and life savings into realty projects that promise dream homes in Punjab seems to be never-ending. Several private builders — mostly in Mohali — have defaulted on paying dues to the government worth a whopping Rs 700 crore, leading to hurdles in getting project…
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IT does not come as much of a surprise that the Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed the Haryana law that provided for 75 per cent reservation for locals in private jobs fetching up to Rs 30,000 a month. The Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020, has been declared unconstitutional. A Division Bench…
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New Delhi, November 19 A study on mice has shown how gut-produced hunger hormones can influence decision-making and drive an animal’s behaviour. The researchers said that the findings demonstrate how the hunger hormone can cross the blood-brain barrier and directly impact the brain to drive activity, controlling a circuit in the brain that is likely…
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Muktsar, November 19 A philanthropist spent around Rs 3.75 lakh to provide 92 blood pressure and as many glucose monitors to government senior secondary schools in Muktsar district in May. However, the project to monitor blood pressure and glucose of Class XI and XII students, has so far remained a non-starter. Prof SPS Brar (retd) of…
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New York, November 20 Researchers have identified a promising new strategy for glaucoma cell replacement therapy. Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide, and vision loss, due to the loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), cannot currently be reversed with any treatment. In the new study researchers at the Schepens Eye Research…
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New York, November 19 Researchers at Texas A&M University in the US are working to create a fully injectable continuous glucose monitor (CGM) so small it rivals a grain of rice and can be used with an external optical reader to measure sugar levels at any given time. Two faculty members from the Department of…
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New Delhi, November 20 The number of measles deaths globally increased by 43 per cent from 2021-2022, following years of declining vaccination rates, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report noted that in 2022, 37 countries experienced large or…
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Chandigarh, November 20 Pakistan’s ex-captain Babar Azam congratulated Australia after Pat Cummins’ men won the ICC World Cup 2023 finals. This reminded many of Virat Kohli’s Instagram post for England, when Pakistan lost the match in T20 world Cup finals by 5 wickets in November 2022. Many called it a tit-for-tat saying that Babar’s wish…
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New Delhi, November 20 Elon Musk on Monday said that it is very important for the public to know why OpenAI’s board felt so strongly to sack Sam Altman as CEO before it aims to reinstate him after heavy backlash. The X owner and earlier OpenAI investor said that he is very worried about the…